One of my goals this year has been to eat healthier. I spent a good part of last year getting back on track, making a lot of changes with the things I ate, changed the way I worked out and the things I focused on. When it comes to food, I've had a major sweet tooth for as long as I can remember. There are times (more than I'd like to admit) where I'd just skip meals in order to have dessert. And one of the hardest things about making all the changes last year was curbing the sweets. I spent a lot of time looking for healthier things to eat that would satisfy my sweet tooth at the same ... read more
Thomas the Train Birthday Party
This Thomas the Train birthday party for L was probably one of my favorites. This post has been on my to do list for way to long now, I'm excited to share the details of the party. Hopefully if you're throwing a Thomas the Train party soon, you'll get a few ideas from this post. Let me start by saying my littlest was train OBSESSED. Thomas was an everyday part of our lives for years, probably from about 2-4 years old. So when it came for the theme of L's 3rd birthday, the decision was simple. My goal for the party was simple and easy. His birthday is in October, we're still usually ... read more
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
Cooking dinner at home definitely hasn't been something I've been great at these days. My kiddos can pretty much eat the same rotation of three to four meals for dinner and be 100% okay with it. Actually, they don't want anything other than those meals. I'm a "pick your battles" kind of mom and in this season of life, I'm happy to rotate those meals. Heck, a year ago it was pretty much the same thing every night for dinner, so I'd consider where were at right now a win. Since they're taken care of rather quickly when it comes to dinner, that leaves my meal. Most nights, I make their ... read more
{Printable} Easter Lunch Box Notes
The next holiday is quickly approaching, which means it's time for a new set of lunch box notes. These lunch box notes have become something the kids have started looking for each day. They now expect them as we move onto another holiday and call me out when I don't have them in there. I'm thinking this is the last holiday set I'll have to create this year. And next year, they should be good to go for each holiday. I've mentioned in past posts that I print these at the beginning of the month before the holiday (I'm a little late getting this post up.) I print 2 pages on card stock ... read more
Teacher Appreciation Survey For Kids
This week is teacher appreciation week at school. Usually it's later in the year, but since we'll be in the testing world for the last few months of school- it's now. For little man's class, I volunteered to do the "letter day." It was the first day where students wrote words of appreciation for the teachers. Since littles say the darnedest things, I thought a little survey turned into a book, would be something the teachers would treasure. I created the printable and make sure to use questions that the three and four year olds could answer. I printed out two sheets for each of the ... read more
Red Velvet Brookies
Last weekend, my littles and I baked away. Two of their favorite pre-teen friends came over to join in the fun. Our plan was Valentine's goodies, a whole bunch of them! One of the first recipes we started with were these red velvet brookies. I first made pumpkin brookies a few years back. You can see that post here. They were pretty easy and so so good. So, for Valentine's Day this year- I decided to make them again but with red velvet cake mix. And instead of making the cookie mix from scratch this time, I went with store bought cookie dough. The prep time for this recipe is less than ... read more
Valentine’s Day Lunch Box Notes
Valentine's Day is just around the corner. I'm not sure about you but I maaayyy have started decorating the minute my Christmas decorations came down. On to the next holiday, right? Over the past few years, one of my favorite things to do for my littles is put notes in their lunches. I've been creating notes for a little over a year and try to design them with themes in mind. One of my goals last month was to create Valentine's Day Lunch Box notes. Below you'll see the notes along with links to print them. After I created the notes with the cute clip art images, I started thinking about ... read more
Thanksgiving Lunch Box Notes & Turkey Cookies
I cannot believe Thanksgiving is just over a week away. I feel like Halloween was just yesterday, I'm sure I'll be saying the same about Thanksgiving in a few short weeks. Last week, I was reminded by my oldest little that I hadn't made any new lunch box notes for Thanksgiving. Honestly, I hadn't thought much about it. I was just planning on using the school themed ones I had left from the beginning of the year. But, seeing her excitement for all things holidays brings me so much joy. So that night, I got to work creating new lunch box notes. We only have a few days left until Thanksgiving ... read more
Halloween Candy Bark
When the holidays start to roll around, I start looking for ideas of fun things to do with the kids. I scour Pinterest, saving everything to a folder on my phone. As the weekends approach, I let the kids go through those folders and choose fun things to do. One of the things that won this year was making Halloween bark. I love making bark for holidays. It's so easy and a lot of fun for the kids to do. Plus it's easy to gift in little clear bags with a fun gift tag. Easy peasy- which is what I'm all about these days. This bark seriously took less than 10 minutes to make and then about an hour ... read more
Halloween Lunch Box Notes
One thing I love doing for holidays, well really all year long is putting little lunch notes in the kids lunches. I print them out in bulk at the beginning of each month and have them in a drawer ready to go when I pack lunches on Sunday afternoons. The kids love seeing them in there, or so they tell me... A few weeks ago, I ran out of the back to school themed lunch notes I've been packing. I figured since Halloween was just around the corner, it would be fun to design a few new ones. Since things take me a lot longer to cross of my to do list these days, the new lunch notes were ready about ... read more
